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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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Far<strong>the</strong>r details would lead beyond our present<br />

soope. It must ohap. enffice to indicate that such<br />

sayings as St. Matt. V. 6, 16, 17, 25, XTin<br />

29, 31, 46, 47; vi. 8, 12, 18, 22, 24, 32; vii. 8, 9,<br />

10, 16, 17-19, "—<br />

22, 23, have no parallel, in any real sense, in<br />

Jewish writings, whose teaching, indeed, <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

embodies opposite ideas. Here it may be<br />

interesting, by one instance, to show what kind o(<br />

Messianic teaching would hare interested a Babbit<br />

In a passage * which describes <strong>the</strong> •A])hod.zoi<br />

great danger <strong>of</strong> intercourse with Jewish Ghristians,<br />

as leading to heresy, a Babbi is introduced, who,<br />

at Sepphoris, had met one <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>' disciples,<br />

named Jacob, a ' man <strong>of</strong>. Eefr Sekanya,' reputed as<br />

working miraculous cures in <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> his<br />

Mttftter.^ It is said, that at a later period <strong>the</strong> Rabbi<br />

suffered grieyous persecution, in punidi-ment for<br />

<strong>the</strong> delight he had taken in a comment on a certain<br />

passage <strong>of</strong> Bcripture, which Jacob attributed to his<br />

Master. It need scarcdy be said, that <strong>the</strong> whole

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